Debugging DIY pedals
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Debugging DIY pedals
Just finished building 2 Lovepedal Tchulas into one enclosure with a “stupidly simple tone control” added to one of them which is a basic low pass filter with a volume knob as well.
The issues I’m have is the volume seems to be all or nothing, not a smooth taper and the volume also seems to alter the tone shaping as well.
The other issue I’m having is the right hand side boost which only has a gain knob is similar all
Or nothing, all the gain is in the last 5% off the knob.
Demo added here. It’s kinda cool, 2 boosts, overdrive with both on gain a bit lower and an insane imploding fuzz machine with gains dimed stacked together! It covers a lot of territory.
The issues I’m have is the volume seems to be all or nothing, not a smooth taper and the volume also seems to alter the tone shaping as well.
The other issue I’m having is the right hand side boost which only has a gain knob is similar all
Or nothing, all the gain is in the last 5% off the knob.
Demo added here. It’s kinda cool, 2 boosts, overdrive with both on gain a bit lower and an insane imploding fuzz machine with gains dimed stacked together! It covers a lot of territory.
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Re: Adding a tone control to boost issue
Are you using audio taper pots ? if so are the the right way around ?
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Re: Adding a tone control to boost issue
a cheat, is to meter the pot and figure out what part of the travel is useful, then pop in a smaller pot that covers that range. you may need to add in a resistor if it is at the top end of the range
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Re: Adding a tone control to boost issue
Sounds great.
Couldn't help notice you've got a pedal called a Jimmy. I'm currently making a Coda FX Golden Hour (Timmy / Jan Ray clone) and was planning on calling it Jimmy too.
Couldn't help notice you've got a pedal called a Jimmy. I'm currently making a Coda FX Golden Hour (Timmy / Jan Ray clone) and was planning on calling it Jimmy too.
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Re: Adding a tone control to boost issue
I made that one from the pedalpcb tommy board. I think it's the v2.
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Re: Adding a tone control to boost issue
The jimmy originally was called Sunday Drive with a different pic. It is a great sounding pedal, but I wanted to refinish it and decided to call it Jimmy!
Rather than start another thread with my weekends pedal building debugging. Here’s a Zonk Machine I built yesterday but doesn’t work.
Voltage at battery 8.4v
Q1, C=0.3v,B=0v, E=0v
Q2, C=5.4v, B =0.3v, E=0.3v
Somethings not right, any thoughts?
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Re: Adding a tone control to boost issue
Good suggestion, I’ll double check this now.
I’ve swapped both transistors incase one was faulty, still no luck.
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Re: Adding a tone control to boost issue
I’ve doubled checked and nothing seems to be shorting anywhere.
Back to the drawing board I guess
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Re: Adding a tone control to boost issue
Yeah those voltages are wacky.
Follow the voltage back from the source - would be checking those 100 k and 47k resistors coming from the power supply are reading healthy voltages.
I have a transistor analysis thingy that I paid too much for that can give the skinny on pnp/npn, hfe, and pin out if things get desperate
100% sure on pinout and correct transistors? Looks like pnp silicon from spec.
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Re: Debugging DIY pedals
You got a spec/schem for this?Reg18 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:45 am Just finished building 2 Lovepedal Tchulas into one enclosure with a “stupidly simple tone control” added to one of them which is a basic low pass filter with a volume knob as well.
The issues I’m have is the volume seems to be all or nothing, not a smooth taper and the volume also seems to alter the tone shaping as well.
The other issue I’m having is the right hand side boost which only has a gain knob is similar all
Or nothing, all the gain is in the last 5% off the knob.
Demo added here. It’s kinda cool, 2 boosts, overdrive with both on gain a bit lower and an insane imploding fuzz machine with gains dimed stacked together! It covers a lot of territory.
Family Music Store - http://familymusic.co.nzGrantB wrote:Tony, your taste is, as always, very refined. Or as HG would say, "bloody awful".
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Re: Debugging DIY pedals
I gave up on the Zonk after far to much time trying to figure it out, converted it to npn silicon with the exact same components and it works fine! Even sounds good!
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